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GEORGE GORDON BYRON

GEORGE GORDON BYRON. (1788-1824). He was born in _____ in 1788. For a malformation of the right leg he was slightly lame. His fame rests not only on his writings but also on his life Numerous love affairs, debts, separation, and allegations of incest.

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GEORGE GORDON BYRON

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  1. GEORGE GORDON BYRON (1788-1824)

  2. He was born in _____ in 1788.For a malformation of the right leg he was slightly lame. • His fame rests not only on his writings but also on his life • Numerous love affairs, debts, separation, and allegations of incest. • Famously described as “mad, bad, and dangerous to know”.

  3. He served as regional leader of Italy’s revolutionary organization the Carbonari in its struggle against ______. • Later he travelled to fight against the Turks in the Greek war of Independence. • He died of fever at ___________.

  4. He was educated at Harrow and Cambridge. • 1807 Hours of Idleness, a collection of sentimental poems. Cold reaction by the critics and Byron’s answer: • ____________________________

  5. 1809 _____ _____ – a trip that rich, educated young men went on. • He visited all _________. • He started the poetical account of this trip ______________________________. • This was a great _______________. • He was very outspoken about his radical political views and his private life was the source of much scandal.

  6. His wife left him just before the birth of his daughter. • Social __________. • He left England and went to Geneva. • There he was joined by Percy and Mary Shelley with her step sister Claire Clairmont (daughter Allegra).

  7. In Venice Byron lived with a nineteen-year-old Countess ___________ and her rich husband. (Joined the Carbonari movement). • 1822 - Shelley drowned in a boating accident.

  8. Greece • He contributed to the cause of Greek Independence. • His health failed him and he died when he was only thirty-six.

  9. Works • He used many different styles and themes: • “She walks in beauty” is a lyrical portrait of a beautiful woman in a regular rhyme and simple language. • Connotative use of language : meaning suggested and evoked. • “So we’ll go no more A-roving” :traditional folk ballad.

  10. Narrative poems • Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. • In 4 cantos about the disillusionment of a young nobleman travelling around Europe. • Europe’s glorious past (Italian Reinassance, Greek culture) in contrast with contemporary, oppression and decadence.

  11. Don Juan – 16 cantos • Left uncompleted. • While Harold is melancholy and introverted, Juan is a libertine, an adventurer . He uses him to satirise conventions of social life. • Tone: humor and contempt about the evils of society. • Against the Tory politicians. • Beliefs such as the glory of war, fidelity in love, basic goodness of humanity are ridiculed in the poem.

  12. As the icon of romantic hero his importance was unsurpassed. • Byronic hero : a gloomy, dissatisfied social outcast, a wanderer in foreign lands, a fighter againts social injustice. • In his quest for self–realization he rejected all social codes and conventions. • Byron a romantic hero:______________ __________________________________________________________________________

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